The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-02-05
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some quarters.
IT is said that Buffalo Bill began life a.
aprinter's devil.
A PROMINENT undertaken at Reno, New,
is Coffin G. Bier.
WASH the mica Of the stove doors with
salt and vinegar.
A CITIZEN Of Pekin, H.. rcioiccs in the
name Of Bloompot.
now, instead of sugar.
MR.. WARREN, of Boston, says that Adam
lived at the North Pole.
WAsHrNaroN's new s2,O00,oo0 hotel is to
be called tho Windsor.
THREE-FoURTns of the Florida orange
crop has been marketed.
ARKANSAS raises O voice in favor of free
text books and against free passes.
AN artesian we'll at Waynesboro, Ca,
came on human bones 400 feet deep.
WOUNDED KNEE is the name of a new
postoffice in Shannon County, Dakota.
A srATIsTIcIAN claims there is one di.
vorco to every four and half marriages.
LorTA, who upon the stage looks about
twenty years old, was forty the other day.
A FROZEN rabbit on the rail at Golden,
H., upset O handcar, breaking o mans
leg.
THE number of idiots in the United States
increased from 94,5N in 1870 to 1885 in
1880.
THE United Labor party has put full
municipal ticket in the field at Philadel-
phia.
BUSINESS in Buenos Ayres is entirely
suspended owing to the prevalence Of
cholera.
Two citizens Of Canova, D. T., ran foot
race through the snow the other night in
their bare feet.
The remains Of Gambetta will soon be
removed to Paris and placed in tho vaults
OF the Pantheon.
THERE is an Indian reservation Of 73, 900
acres In North Carolina inh sbited by about
1900 Cherokees.
In st. Louis the other afternoon more
than 10000 people turned out in body to
hunt for ghost.
1T has been forty years since more than
one ballot has been required to elect U. 8.
Senator in Indiana.
A New YoRK society lady has been OF.
fered 81 900 to sign her name to patent
medicine Endorsement
THE merchants Of Savannah, Ga, pro-
pose adopting business hours extending
from q. m. to 8 p. m.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has been presented
with cane cut from tree which shaded
him at the time Of his surrender.
THE girls of Peru, ILL.,, are said to have
formed toboggan club, the members Of
which slide down hill on barrel slaves.
A New York paper suggests that the
dudes of that city be organized and sent to
Central Africa to the relief of Emin Bey.
THE new artesian we'll now being bored
at Charleston, 8. c., Is over 1,100 feet deep
already, with diameter of twelve inches.
"BLL ARP" is delivering a series Of lee
lures in Mississippi for the benefit Of the
Confederate monument at jackson, Miss.
THE wife Of Senator Stanford, Of Cali.
fornia, wore s50O,0O0 worth Of diamonds
. and jewels NJ the late Presidential recep.
iun.
TIE Rothschilds, who now control oil the
quicksilver mines in the world, are said tc
be intending extensive investments in gold
mines.
ANARCHIST SPIES says that Sheriff Mat
sons refusal to allow him to wed Miss
Van Zandt will "upset every throne in
Europe"
FRANCE is buying large timber tracts in
Alsacs-Lorraine, apparently for the pur-
pose Of building wooden barracks along
the frontier.
THERE are rumors in London Of coming
divorce case in which the principal parties
viii be the Princess Louise and the Mar
Quis Of Lorne.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is going into the
dairy business extensively on the farm in
Rhode Island which he recently bought
from August Belmont.
A MAN who imagined himself telephone,
and who has been trying for year to
shout "Hello" in his own ear, was sent to
IN asylum at Flatbush, L. l.
THERE are at this time Is, 900 more manu-
featuring establishments in the Southern
States than in 1880, representing cash in.
vestment Of over s6o, 900 900.
The highest spot inhabited by human be.
ings is said to be the Buddhist cloister of
Hanie, Thibet, where twenty-one priests
live Mt an altitude of 10000 feet.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has again started for
tho "dark" continent. AS he is backed by
a strong army, the chances are that he in
tends to chan its color to red.
1T is stated that Italy has declared its
seventeen universities open to women
Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and Dem
mark have taken similar action.
A YOUNG woman of Lynn was recently
poisoned by the arsenic washed on to her
face from two birds ON her bonnet while
she was riding during rain storm.
THE teeth OF citizen of North Strahave,
Pa, are al double. He can crack wal
nut, bite two-penny nail in two or lift q
quarter of beef with his teeth with ease.
A NAUGHTY editor says: "a new design
for the obelisk hats is to surmount them
with q goose with outstretched WINGS
Hitherto the goose has been under the
hat"
TIE value Of the leaf tobacco crop in the
United States has varied from $39, 900, ,OOC
to ~, 100000 per year during the past six
years. The heavy production of the lower
grades Of tobacco leaf are discouragins
further production because Of the low
prices realized.
The new State Department at Washing.
ton has $50 rooms, and cost S5,00O,OOO The
new War Department has l73 rooms,
and cost $2,50O,0OO. The building has Az
windows.
The city Of Milan has at last decided to
erect the long-waiting monument in honor
of Napoleon III. 1t was ready in 1873, but
its cree tion has been delayed, by factious
opposition.
JANAUsCHEK, the actress, Is q victim OF
''l8' superstition. During her recent en-.
gagement at indianapolis she refused tc
occupy room having the mystic number
above the door, exclaiming: "Mein Got
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